Entrepanuerial Solutions to the Bailout (On the Baliout aka The Great Looting)

How about new banks?
Let Wal-Mart get into banking like they hinted at a few years ago. I could give a fuck if current bankers and their lackeys in congress are opposes. Wal-Mart would have a customer focus and would optimize.
Hey, I’d even let the US Postal Service get back into banking. Let them open a [...]

Entrepreneurship News: “The Innovators Club”

From IEEE Spectrum:

You don’t need your own exercise equipment to get fit, so why do you need your own machine tools to build something cool?
Such thinking led Jim Newton to found the first TechShop, a high‑tech workshop open to anyone who pays a modest membership fee. Think of it as a health club for geeks. [...]

Entrepreneurship News: “Snow-thrower accessory invented by sixth-grade students Matt Moran and Sam Hipple”

From JS-Online:

Why didn’t we think of it?
That’s how Ariens Co. engineers reacted when they first saw the snow-thrower accessory invented by sixth-grade students Matt Moran and Sam Hipple.
The students from Davenport, Iowa, built a rock salt dispenser that mounts under the handlebars of an Ariens snow thrower and spreads salt along the machine’s path, allowing [...]

“The party can still be for limited government, but a government effective in providing tools to support innovation and entrepreneurship”

…so it is written in this CSM editorial: “Do Republicans have a ‘Yes, we can’?”:
But it will be a party out of power and one that cannot keep riding this elephant in the direction it’s been going. Republicans have too many splits, from libertarians in the West to social conservatives in the South to Rockefeller [...]

More on the Hyperion Mini-nuke reactors

From The Guardian (via Instapundit):

Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb.
The miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, contain no weapons-grade material, have no moving parts and will [...]

Entrepaunerial News: Using YouTube to get the word out…

…was covered in last Sunday’s New York Times:

The video showed how, in a few easy steps, the Nintendo Wii remote controller — or “Wiimote” — could transform a normal video screen into a virtual reality display, with graphics that seemed to pop through the screen and into the living room. So far, the video has [...]

Future Milwaukee entrepaunerial activity seeds: “MSOE to open biomolecular engineering program”

This sounds cool!

The Milwaukee School of Engineering next fall will launch a degree program in biomolecular engineering – the first bachelor’s program of its kind in Wisconsin – thanks to a $6 million gift from philanthropists Robert and Patricia Kern and their daughters.
“We’re very excited about the program,” MSOE President Hermann Viets said. “Our aim [...]

My Weird Life

My Life is weird.
I am up early this morning. I already have a black coffee in me. I just opened a bottle of Cherry Coke Zero. I expect to drink lots of Caffeine today. I hope to not crash until the end of the day. I may sneak a mini-nap.
Why?
Because of a late night phone [...]

“College students are sort of dumb” and “The Coming Popularity of al Qaeda”

TDAXP makes a prediction that I think is right on:
I have argued before that because of the Left’s fascination with “other voices,” al Qaeda will become a hip movement on college campuses (in the sense that Che is now or the Viet Cong once was) . This will happen in a generation after 9/11.
I had [...]